For anyone who fell in love with Portugal

Make them a Dom or Dona of Portugal

Dom and Dona are the Portuguese Sir and Lady. Put their name on a keepsake certificate, with a little plot of coast just outside Lisbon.

Choose a title · from $59.95
CARTA DE HONRA
POR MARES NUNCA DANTES NAVEGADOS CASA DO PADRÃO
Saibam quantos esta carta virem  ·  Be it known to all who read this letter
Dom Francisco de Portugal
PORTUGUÊS
O portador é recebido, com honra plena e duradoura, na guarda honorífica da Casa do Padrão, e é lhe concedida a afetuosa tutela de uma parcela de terra em Cascais: guardar o seu nome antigo, e a memória daqueles que partiram por mares nunca dantes navegados e a ela tornaram.
ENGLISH
The bearer is received, with full and lasting honor, into the honorific guardianship of the Casa do Padrão, and is granted the affectionate stewardship of a land parcel at Cascais: to keep its ancient name, and the memory of those who set out through seas no one had sailed before, and came home to it.
Esta é a ditosa Pátria minha amada  ·  This is my beloved and fortunate homeland
Vasco da Gama
Por Portugal  ·  O Guardião
N.º CP-001860  ·  EMITIDO EM 29 OUTUBRO 2026
Cascais, Portugal · Uma dedicatória honorífica de recordação.
What arrives

Their name, on a certificate from Portugal

  1. Choose Dom, Dona, or the couple pack for two.
  2. Type the name. The certificate is drawn to it while you watch.
  3. It arrives by email within minutes, sealed and uniquely numbered.

And a souvenir plot on the coast just outside Lisbon, dedicated in that name.

$59.95 emailed · $89.95 printed and shipped to you

Claim your title → Or read the certificate up close.

Shown with a sample name and number.

Step one

Choose Your Title

For him
The Dom Pack
Dom [your name] de Portugal · from $59.95
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For her
The Dona Pack
Dona [your name] de Portugal · from $59.95
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For two · Dom & Dona
The Couple Pack
two names, one sheet · from $119.95
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Secure Stripe checkout Certificate emailed within minutes A souvenir plot on the coast just outside Lisbon Uniquely numbered & sealed A keepsake honorific, not a legal title

“Esta é a ditosa Pátria minha amada.”

This is my beloved and fortunate homeland.

Luís de Camões · Os Lusíadas, 1572
Who it is for

For anyone who loves Portugal

You probably know one. It might even be you. The friend who came back from Lisbon and still talks about the custard tarts. The mom whose grandmother came over from the Azores. The couple who honeymooned in the Algarve and keep saying they will go back. The one planning the trip right now, with forty tabs open.

This is a gift for all of them. A Portuguese title with their name on it, in Portuguese and in English, and a little plot of the coast to go with it. It is charming, it is a bit grand, and nobody has one already.

Where the title comes from: Dom Henrique, the prince everyone calls Henry the Navigator, kept sending ships past the edge of the known map. The explorers who came after him were addressed the same way: Dom Vasco, who found the sea route to India. Now Dom or Dona can go in front of any name you like.

Every pack starts at $59.95. Dom, Dona, or both names on the Couple Pack. Each is uniquely numbered, sealed with the armillary sphere, and ready within minutes.

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Inside every pack

When a Portuguese ship reached a coast no one at home had drawn, the crew set up a padrão: a stone pillar carrying the arms of Portugal and a name, left standing to say someone had been here. This house takes its name from that stone. Your certificate is drawn in the same spirit, sealed with the armillary sphere and inscribed Dom or Dona before your name.

See the certificate up close →

A souvenir plot on the coast just outside Lisbon comes with it, dedicated in your name.

It is for anyone who would rather be given a story than another gadget, whether that is someone you love or yourself. If it is not right for any reason, write to us and we will fix it.

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Saudade

[sɐwˈda.ðɨ] sow · DAH · thuh

Portuguese has a word the rest of us had to borrow, because nobody else needed one badly enough to invent it.

If you have ever come home from Portugal and missed it, you already know the feeling.

Read the story of the word →

Traditional sailing boats on the Tagus at dusk, with Lisbon on the far bank
Your plot · Just outside Lisbon

A piece of the land they came home to

Every title comes with a dedicated souvenir plot on the coast just outside Lisbon, named and numbered on your certificate.

Not the ocean they crossed. The ground they were trying to get back to: the last thing they saw going out, the first thing they looked for coming in, and the reason any of them turned around at all.

Ships back from India and the coast of Africa raised this headland first, then worked up the Tagus to Lisbon.

A square foot of it, dedicated in your name, for as long as you keep the certificate.

See where the land is →
The coast just west of Lisbon, where the Tagus meets the Atlantic. Every plot is on this stretch of it. Base map: Rúdisicyon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
All the way around

They did not stop until the map closed on itself.

A country of a million people sailed off the edge of the known map, and kept going until it had sailed all the way around the world.

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Step two

How it comes to you

I.

Choose Dom, Dona, or the couple pack, and give us the name to put on it.

II.

Your name is set into a certificate drawn in the old Portuguese style and sealed with the armillary sphere.

III.

It arrives in the inbox within minutes, ready to print and frame, or to give as it is.

A little piece of Portugal, in their name

From $59.95. Emailed within minutes, so it works even if you remembered tonight.

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